diff --git a/Xamarin.Essentials/Xamarin.Essentials.csproj b/Xamarin.Essentials/Xamarin.Essentials.csproj
index 0709e90df..e1e6728ed 100644
--- a/Xamarin.Essentials/Xamarin.Essentials.csproj
+++ b/Xamarin.Essentials/Xamarin.Essentials.csproj
@@ -32,16 +32,12 @@
     <PackageProjectUrl>https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868960</PackageProjectUrl>
     <MDocDocumentationDirectory>$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\docs\en</MDocDocumentationDirectory>
     <Configurations>Debug;Release;Samples;Docs</Configurations>
+    <DebugType>portable</DebugType>
  </PropertyGroup>
-  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Samples'">
-    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
-  </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)'=='Debug' ">
-    <DebugType>full</DebugType>
     <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)'=='Release' And '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT' ">
-    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
     <!-- sourcelink: Declare that the Repository URL can be published to NuSpec -->
     <PublishRepositoryUrl>true</PublishRepositoryUrl>
     <!-- sourcelink: Embed source files that are not tracked by the source control manager to the PDB -->
@@ -49,9 +45,6 @@
     <!-- sourcelink: Include PDB in the built .nupkg -->
     <AllowedOutputExtensionsInPackageBuildOutputFolder>$(AllowedOutputExtensionsInPackageBuildOutputFolder);.pdb</AllowedOutputExtensionsInPackageBuildOutputFolder>
   </PropertyGroup>
-  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)'=='Docs' ">
-    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
-  </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)'=='Release' And '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT' ">
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub" Version="1.0.0-beta-63127-02" PrivateAssets="All" />    
   </ItemGroup>